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The suppression of the use of marijuana and of the
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forces lurking behind it are the most important jobs this
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department is now engaged in. In 1930, the records on
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marijuana in the Washington office of the Narcotics.
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Division scarcely filled a small folder like this.
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Today, they fill cabinets.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Coloradians and everyone that's smart enough
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to listen from the outside.
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It's one of the most amazing plants we've ever discovered.
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The pot party, the trippers, the grasshoppers, the hip ones,
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all gathered in secrecy and flying high as a kite. Baby,
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we're back and I am exhausted. Welcome to another episode
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of Stoned Appetite. With your host, as always, it's me, Kip.
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Across the ones and twos, I got CB. He probably
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doesn't want to hear from me saying I'm tired. The
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father has probably had his whole... You know, his own
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sets of battles. But it's been a hell of a
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couple weeks since we last spoke with everybody, recapped wedding
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and vibes. Now we have to recap Big Sky food
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and wine, as well as savor the season, eat Denver's
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premier fundraiser that we do every year, as well as
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tease a little bit about what's to come this weekend.
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Before we dive into any of that, I want to
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At this point, Chris, my brain is just foggy. It's
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not pickled. But I know that those two brands teaming
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find those exclusively at the 10 locations of Agati across
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the state. Let's dive right into it. Where do we
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leave off? Big Sky Food and Wine?
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Yeah, kick off with that because I want to hear
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about that because I think that's like, I mean, from
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us communicating during the event, it just sounds like an
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awesome time and also a great way, like it's easy
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to get to flying-wise from Denver to Montana. Like it
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seems like that would be a fun like little, staycation,
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little escape, go to Big Sky, do this, you know,
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in the off-ski season or something.
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Very much so. Yeah, they called it the end of
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their summer. And with Food & Wine, Classic, and Aspen
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not going down next year with all the construction going
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on at their airport and things of that magnitude, if
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you're looking for an elevated experience that would be surrounding
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a food festival, this one is... a choice option. Um,
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for those that don't know big sky food and wine
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did their first ever food wine classic, uh, hosted by
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Ming Sai, who was a guest on the podcast about
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a month or so ago. Um, he's an iron chef winner.
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He's a multi-time what book restaurant equipment, seasoning chef that
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sold it on everywhere from HSN QVC, all the three letter, uh,
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websites and television channels, but they brought up 30 some
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odd chefs from across the country that were star studded,
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Michelin studded, literally. And then they highlighted 15 local chefs
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from Montana itself, whether it was Bozeman, whether it was
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Big Sky, whether they were from Whitefish, fucking Missoula. It
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was Un-fucking-believable. When you think about all these food festivals
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we do, oftentimes there's all these other events that are
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going on that not necessarily supersede, but you come to
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XYZ town or city to do the festival, but really
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it's these other events where you get to make friends
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and befriend or just get to know the chefs that
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you want to meet, whether it's Nancy Silverton or Jose Andres.
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who we had the pleasure of having dinner with, both
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of which over the weekend. But what they did was
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they made the grand tasting the focal point of the
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weekend both days, which is genius and delicious. And you
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didn't want to leave the grounds because there's so much
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great food there that even like I went to a
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dinner with Chef Ming at Akira box, Michelin star restaurant,
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just outside of big sky, like a 30 minute drive.
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And in the middle of the woods on a lake
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and his restaurant is gorgeous. It almost reminds you of
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like one of those, like, uh, like new war, like
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Norwegian movie, like locations where like, there's a hotel in
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the middle of fucking nowhere, you know, and no one
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would scream. If you were like, your hand goes down
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this window with blood. It like, You were so tucked away.
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And then there's just a decadent dinner. But realistically, all
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of those chefs were serving in the grand tasting as well,
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which made it just unbelievable. I mean, Eric Bost and
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the team from, what is it, Lilo? Brian and the
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team from in close out of Sonoma, which is what,
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a three-star Michelin restaurant. But, I mean, Kelly Whitaker, Emily...
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Jared and the team from Wolf's Taylor came up and
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were highlighting dry storage ingredients, which Kelly was on the
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podcast about a few weeks ago as well, talking about
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this event. But it just kind of allowed all of
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them to kind of like bring your A game and
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goof off. And it wasn't as much keeping up with
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the Joneses or you have to use caviar and truffles,
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but it was there in spades. Shout out to N25
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or N75. who has great caviar, you know, like there
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was so much, it was refined yet relaxed. Like the
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opening night was a party in the barn at this
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little resort area. And I won a case of Chateau Margot,
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which just based off a random raffle, there was no
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like cheating or anything. Someone that, you know, I did
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not know personally drew my number out of the hat.
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And I was like, holy shit, what an unbelievable reward.
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Do you have that on your person now?
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Not yet, but it will be here soon enough.
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They better send tracking.
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Yeah, they probably did. My inbox, and I'll talk about
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that for the next bit, and the reason I'm so
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backlogged and why we're an episode behind. But Big Sky
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rolled out the carpet, not only for their guests. Shout
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out to the montage hotel, spa, golf course, whatever. They
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do kind of everything. As it was kind of like
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the end of summer, it was a little bit of
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yellow leaves, but still a lot of evergreens. Everything like,
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you know, it's sweater weather at most. It was awesome.
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And the tickets being a thousand bucks, $ 8. 50 if you
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used our promo code. That's cheaper than 92% of the
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other food festivals we go to throughout the year. And
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so it really was different. decadent but it was also
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just fun and just like you got to meet hang
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out with people like sabato who you got to know
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in aspen sagaria and his team from apric crew june
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was there and felipe from houston like there were chefs
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from new orleans from new york it was it was
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fucking awesome chris it was fucking awesome and i just
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if i was i don't know how to rank because
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every food festival is different and they kind of lean
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on their own, like different vibes of what they're going for.
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But the food at this one was exquisite. And I'd
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put that at the top of best bites I had
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from the season of festival season. It was gnarly as fuck.
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Nice.
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Quick question.
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Like, so, okay.
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So, you know, like you go to Aspen, you've been
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to Jackson food and wine. And now you've been to
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Big Sky. So what's the scenery like in Big Sky?
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Do you feel like you could also be in Colorado?
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Because you know when you're in Jackson, you definitely feel
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like you're in a different place because of the Tetons.
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Does Big Sky have a distinct mountain feel to it?
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They have a distinct mountain feel like you would, like
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Aspen does. It's not right up there on you. Jackson Hole...
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is so breathtaking and like, it really showcases, Jackson as
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it's in its own right and they bring in a
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few select chefs wine purveyors and things of that magnitude
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juxtaposed like Big Sky brought in a lot from outside
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of the community while still keeping their ethos of Big
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Sky intact Big Sky, the town, we didn't really hang
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out as much as we probably should have. But it's
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really hip. But it's not like you're looking up at
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like 16 or 14 or 10,000 vertical feet right in
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front of you. Big Sky is very... Montana is just vast.
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It's wide. So everybody was kind of peppered throughout, not
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only the valley, but across the mountain as well. So
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you may not see somebody except for at the Grand Tasting,
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whether it's a chef or... you know, another guest that
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was there for the week. But at the same time,
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with everybody kind of gravitating towards the grand tasting and
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that kind of being the centerfold of the whole weekend,
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it made it kind of feel like we were all
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there together in the same right. Aspen, it feels like
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the magazine, shout out to Food and Wine Magazine, because
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they fucking knocked the bottom out of that. It feels
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like they bring in a star studded team from all
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over the country. And it almost feels, that one feels
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like a reunion because we know so many of those
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people and we've had the luxury and blessings to be
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able to kind of go and showcase that. But everyone's
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like densely populated in this one area all weekend. You know, like,
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so like you bump into the same people, we go
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to happy hour at the same spot, or you run
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into Phil Rosenthal at breakfast the next morning. Like that
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kind of vibe, it's much different than that. But at
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the same time, like if you're a foodie or a gourmand,
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you would eat to your heart's content and you'd probably
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nerd out, especially if you kind of have your thumb
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on the pulse of the culinary scene across the country,
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not just necessarily on television or something of that magnitude.
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It's more of the food and what everyone brought like
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representations to, of their community, of what their menu looks like,
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ingredients they actively source. And I thought the Montana chefs,
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whether it was Ming and the whole coalition in Big Sky,
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are from those from across the state. There were farmers
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that were being represented that were on stage. Shout out
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to Chef Eduardo as well. They all really made a
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point to highlight what was true and what makes Montana
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food great also. And they very much held their own
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amongst all of those star-studded chefs that were aforementioned. So
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like Chris, it was righteous as fuck. And I have
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no doubt that if they do a year or two,
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that it's something that I think everybody that this would
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be a trip that you would want to do if
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you fancy yourself a culinary getaway without having to do Oh,
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do I have tickets to this? Do I have FOMO
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because I'm not at that? Everybody's at the same event
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for the same reason. And it's fucking nuts. It's nuts, Chris.
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Nice.
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After that, I got him Sunday. And we turned around.
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We did three nights of Savor the Season with Eat
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Denver to raise money. It went really, really well. We
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sold out all three nights. we raised probably 10 times
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more money than we did last year. Obviously last year
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was the inaugural year. It went really like Kristen looked
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at me at one point and she was like, something's wrong.
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Like things are going too smoothly for this to be
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the case. And I mean, that's a great problem to have.
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And so between that and raising money, the chefs absolutely
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showed out like, If I was to try to name
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all 28 restaurants, I would definitely miss somebody. So I
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would just say thank you to all of them. From
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Tuesday night, they set a tone and a vibe for
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a party. Our sponsors and those that donated food and
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wine and beer and cider and non-alcoholics to the food
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that was put on the plates. But the volunteers... they
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came with it. Like it was vivacious, you know, personalities
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and attitudes, like everybody, like nobody felt like it was
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a chore to be there from back house to front
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of house. And we worked like a dog. Like, I
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know you're a runner at this point in your life.
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You're probably running what, like four to 10 miles every
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couple of days. I logged like 75,000 steps in the
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first two days of the event. Like, It was well
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over 30 Tuesday and Wednesday. And then Thursday we kind
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of were like in the home stretch. All of every
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piece was in place. So there wasn't a lot for
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us to do except get ready for service. But man, yeah,
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my heart is full. My cup is full and my
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battery is so low. So low. I'm tired. We killed
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it though. We killed it.
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Nice.
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Um, what were, what were the themes of the nights again?
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we had like a day where there was more seafood focus,
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a day of land. Like we had a day where
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it was beef, lamb and bison, a day where there
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was caviar and hamachi and three or two or three
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fish dishes and And then Thursday was kind of like
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a little bit of everything. But a lot of chefs
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who had worked with the Sound Future, which is a
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locally operated nonprofit that represents regenerative farming across the country
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and the globe. Those chefs all volunteered to do the
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Thursday night. And that was kind of a hodgepodge mix match.
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But realistically, like three past apps, family style, five courses,
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It's a top 30. It was ranked a top 100
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coffee shop in the world and one of only 30
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in America that received one of those recognitions based off
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of where they source, how they roast, etc. And they
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paired coffee, different beans, roasting every night with the dessert course.
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And then we had gift bags every night. Yeah. And
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then we had gift bags that everybody got to go
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home with, like a little sweet treat or a nosh
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for the ride home or for the next morning from
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acclaimed chefs in the community also. So we upped the
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ante a little bit this year. But at the same time,
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the community showed out. They shared their love, opened their pocketbooks.
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And I tried to get them as living and kiddy
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as physically possible.
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Nice, that's a good strategy. But yeah, I think that's
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one good thing. Obviously, I wasn't able to go this year.
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I will go next year. But, I mean, the thing is,
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it's worth every penny. You don't leave there hungry.
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You don't leave hungry, and hopefully you feel like, oh,
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I was supporting a righteous cause, whether or not you
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donated over the top or just on the fax. Um,
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so hopefully everyone left with the same kind of cup
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being full as we did, but, um, it really was
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a smashing success. Speaking of not being there this year,
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I really haven't seen you in like two weeks. What
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have you been up to?
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Um, to be honest with you, man, not a whole lot. Uh, no,
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I'm just kidding. Um, just dad life, you know, entering the, um,
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Entering the RSV, cold, virus, flu season, things are just
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popping off. I don't think there's been a period in
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the last two weeks where I've ever felt 100%. I'm
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not sick, but I'm not well.
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Is it like the change of the seasons or is
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it like the kids coming home with like from child,
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like are from daycare bringing something new and funky that
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your body hasn't seen since you were like 20, you know,
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25 years ago.
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Oh dude.
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I think my body right now is just having an
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internal battle being like.
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What the fuck's happening? Why is this coming back? Like,
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what are we doing here? Where are we? Are you
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a child?
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Like literally I just, I'm not like, super sick i
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did end up with sinus infection hooray um but i'm
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not like i've just never i'm probably at like 70 i.
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Mean that's how you're gonna be for the next 18 years.
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No i mean like i'll like i won't be sick
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all the fucking time i just feel like i'm not
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sick but i'm not i'm not well either.
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Yeah I mean, at least you're about to have a
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little time to decompress. You're headed out of town. You've
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got a little vacation on the docket. You're going to
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your second home, a little beach house vibes over in
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San Diego to celebrate the anniversary.
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Yeah, I honestly can't wait to get a taco or
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all the tacos, all the seafood. it's just so goddamn
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good out there but yeah we're gonna go check out
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a restaurant Friday night in Encinitas so I'm I'm pretty
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pumped it's called Valentina I think but it's kind of
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like a tapas.
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Type seafood restaurant.
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Okay. Look, I'm back. I'll hold the fort down while
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you're gone. Yeah. I'm going to take a long... I
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got to go to New York for work in a
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couple days or in a week or two. But besides that,
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I can't wait to just unplug and recharge.
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Hey, but my past two weeks have been better than
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the Broncos.
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True. And Mississippi State.
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Yeah.
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I mean, so you'll be eating well there. I'm going
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to sneak down to Colorado Springs for a little spa
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and also go catch up with some culinary professionals that
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were recently listed on the Michelin Guide and go see
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what Brother Luck and Chef Ashley Brown are up to.
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And then also I saw BoomBots just dropped a brand
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new menu for autumn that I think, oh yeah, it
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looks like Tickle My Pickle. I'm so fancy to I'm
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going to try and catch that this weekend as well.
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But realistically, this is a perfect time for us to unwind,
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get geared up and ramped up for the holiday season
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and the big push that we have. And next week,
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we have guests coming back on the pod. We have
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some from Big Sky that will drop as well. But
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with us having to double dip recaps, I was like,
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we'll just parse those out.
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Yeah, and I'm back. I mean, I get back Monday, so.
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Hell yeah.
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All this groovy there.
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And I think now the temps are starting to lower
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after this week, after this, because California had a heat wave.
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Um, this week.
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And I think that's what we're getting. But all these, uh,
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fall wine shipments are about to ship.
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So.
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Maybe my Margot will be in that category.
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We're about to be up in our elbows in fucking wine. Dude,
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it's disgusting.
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Like, uh, Because all the bills come in at once.
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And when you have like three or four clubs going on,
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like you're like, oh, fuck, that's a lot of money.
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But then you realize you're going to be sitting on
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this stuff. Well, yeah, we'll see how long it lasts.
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I was going to say.
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But I mean, like come next week, we're going to
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have a full fucking cellar.
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I mean, that's a great problem to have. And I'm
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going to have to, yeah, my fridge is full because
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we had some leftover Freeland whites. from uh the wedding
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and a box or two of reds that we will
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be gifting and then now that we're going to add
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in some uh wines that cost more than my car
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um i'm gonna even get i'm gonna have to get
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like a safe like rednecks keep guns and like a
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locked you know under lock and key i'm gonna do
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that with the margo.
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I would i would fuck yeah that's not.
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Like I could pay off any loan I may have.
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You've got loans.
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Yeah. I got debts. I don't have loans. I have debts.
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Yeah, two very different things.
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Yeah. Some are people that are like, hey, pay. But
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at the same time, no, we're going to keep this wine.
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We'll use it for celebratory purposes. 40th birthday coming around
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the bend. I'm getting too old to be doing a
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fucking podcast. But here we are in year 10. And then,
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you know, we'll use them for celebratory purposes like that.
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We should crack one if they were here in time
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for your anniversary. We maybe do a family supper when
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you get back.
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I'm down.
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Always. Hell yeah. Well, yeah, I just want to get
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a recap episode starting next week. We got a guest
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joining local nationwide. We'll talk about the state of the industry.
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We're also going to dive into the balance. I sat
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down with Phil Weiser today at lunch. with a lot
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of other restaurant professionals to talk about the state of
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the industry and how we may be able to keep
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restaurants open and how to make it a friendlier operation
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and industry across Colorado. So we'll talk a little bit
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more about that. Don't forget to register to vote if
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you're not already. November 3rd is creeping up just because
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one side of the governor race is loaded with a psychopath.
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does not necessarily mean that you can just sit idly by.
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We have house races, Senate races. We have local battles,
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whether you're in Arvada, Denver, Edgewater, fucking Boulder, everybody. There's
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a lot of things that are pressing. And if you
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want a different, you want to see a difference, don't
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say it's not going to change anything. It starts at
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a local level. So we'll dive into that in the
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coming weeks. Maybe we'll get someone on to talk a
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little bit about policy and and how to navigate your ballot.
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But at the same time, we're getting geared up. Now
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that food season is done, we've got three more months
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of this year, and let's make sure that we make
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it count and we shop and spend our money locally
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and with the proper ethos.
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Hell yeah.
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Hell yeah. Well, safe travels, CB. I'll see you on
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the other side. I hope you feel better. I also
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feel like I'm just like, my body's like, stop. Please stop.
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So I'm going to try and take a break myself.
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But until next week, y'all stay high, stay hungry.
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Recharge your batteries.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
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The suppression of the use of marijuana and of the
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forces lurking behind it are the most important jobs this
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department is now engaged in. In 1930, the records on
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marijuana in the Washington office of the Narcotics.
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Division scarcely filled a small folder like this.
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Today, they fill cabinets.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Coloradians and everyone that's smart enough
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to listen from the outside.
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It's one of the most amazing plants we've ever discovered.
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The pot party, the trippers, the grasshoppers, the hip ones,
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all gathered in secrecy and flying high as a kite. Baby,
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we're back and I am exhausted. Welcome to another episode
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of Stoned Appetite. With your host, as always, it's me, Kip.
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Across the ones and twos, I got CB. He probably
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doesn't want to hear from me saying I'm tired. The
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father has probably had his whole... You know, his own
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sets of battles. But it's been a hell of a
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couple weeks since we last spoke with everybody, recapped wedding
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and vibes. Now we have to recap Big Sky food
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and wine, as well as savor the season, eat Denver's
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premier fundraiser that we do every year, as well as
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tease a little bit about what's to come this weekend.
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Before we dive into any of that, I want to
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give a shout out to our sponsors. As always, it's
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At this point, Chris, my brain is just foggy. It's
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not pickled. But I know that those two brands teaming
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find those exclusively at the 10 locations of Agati across
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the state. Let's dive right into it. Where do we
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leave off? Big Sky Food and Wine?
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Yeah, kick off with that because I want to hear
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about that because I think that's like, I mean, from
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us communicating during the event, it just sounds like an
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awesome time and also a great way, like it's easy
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to get to flying-wise from Denver to Montana. Like it
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seems like that would be a fun like little, staycation,
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little escape, go to Big Sky, do this, you know,
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in the off-ski season or something.
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their summer. And with Food & Wine, Classic, and Aspen
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not going down next year with all the construction going
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on at their airport and things of that magnitude, if
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you're looking for an elevated experience that would be surrounding
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a food festival, this one is... a choice option. Um,
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for those that don't know big sky food and wine
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did their first ever food wine classic, uh, hosted by
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Ming Sai, who was a guest on the podcast about
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a month or so ago. Um, he's an iron chef winner.
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He's a multi-time what book restaurant equipment, seasoning chef that
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sold it on everywhere from HSN QVC, all the three letter, uh,
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websites and television channels, but they brought up 30 some
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odd chefs from across the country that were star studded,
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Michelin studded, literally. And then they highlighted 15 local chefs
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from Montana itself, whether it was Bozeman, whether it was
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Big Sky, whether they were from Whitefish, fucking Missoula. It
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was Un-fucking-believable. When you think about all these food festivals
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we do, oftentimes there's all these other events that are
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going on that not necessarily supersede, but you come to
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XYZ town or city to do the festival, but really
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it's these other events where you get to make friends
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and befriend or just get to know the chefs that
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you want to meet, whether it's Nancy Silverton or Jose Andres.
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who we had the pleasure of having dinner with, both
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of which over the weekend. But what they did was
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they made the grand tasting the focal point of the
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weekend both days, which is genius and delicious. And you
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didn't want to leave the grounds because there's so much
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great food there that even like I went to a
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dinner with Chef Ming at Akira box, Michelin star restaurant,
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just outside of big sky, like a 30 minute drive.
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And in the middle of the woods on a lake
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and his restaurant is gorgeous. It almost reminds you of
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like one of those, like, uh, like new war, like
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Norwegian movie, like locations where like, there's a hotel in
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the middle of fucking nowhere, you know, and no one
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would scream. If you were like, your hand goes down
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this window with blood. It like, You were so tucked away.
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of those chefs were serving in the grand tasting as well,
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which made it just unbelievable. I mean, Eric Bost and
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the team from, what is it, Lilo? Brian and the
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team from in close out of Sonoma, which is what,
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a three-star Michelin restaurant. But, I mean, Kelly Whitaker, Emily...
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Jared and the team from Wolf's Taylor came up and
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were highlighting dry storage ingredients, which Kelly was on the
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podcast about a few weeks ago as well, talking about
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this event. But it just kind of allowed all of
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them to kind of like bring your A game and
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goof off. And it wasn't as much keeping up with
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the Joneses or you have to use caviar and truffles,
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but it was there in spades. Shout out to N25
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or N75. who has great caviar, you know, like there
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was so much, it was refined yet relaxed. Like the
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opening night was a party in the barn at this
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little resort area. And I won a case of Chateau Margot,
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which just based off a random raffle, there was no
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like cheating or anything. Someone that, you know, I did
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not know personally drew my number out of the hat.
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Do you have that on your person now?
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Not yet, but it will be here soon enough.
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They better send tracking.
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Yeah, they probably did. My inbox, and I'll talk about
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that for the next bit, and the reason I'm so
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backlogged and why we're an episode behind. But Big Sky
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rolled out the carpet, not only for their guests. Shout
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out to the montage hotel, spa, golf course, whatever. They
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do kind of everything. As it was kind of like
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the end of summer, it was a little bit of
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yellow leaves, but still a lot of evergreens. Everything like,
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you know, it's sweater weather at most. It was awesome.
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used our promo code. That's cheaper than 92% of the
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other food festivals we go to throughout the year. And
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so it really was different. decadent but it was also
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just fun and just like you got to meet hang
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out with people like sabato who you got to know
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in aspen sagaria and his team from apric crew june
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was there and felipe from houston like there were chefs
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from new orleans from new york it was it was
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fucking awesome chris it was fucking awesome and i just
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if i was i don't know how to rank because
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every food festival is different and they kind of lean
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on their own, like different vibes of what they're going for.
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But the food at this one was exquisite. And I'd
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put that at the top of best bites I had
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from the season of festival season. It was gnarly as fuck.
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Quick question.
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Like, so, okay.
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So, you know, like you go to Aspen, you've been
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to Jackson food and wine. And now you've been to
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Big Sky. So what's the scenery like in Big Sky?
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Do you feel like you could also be in Colorado?
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Because you know when you're in Jackson, you definitely feel
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like you're in a different place because of the Tetons.
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Does Big Sky have a distinct mountain feel to it?
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They have a distinct mountain feel like you would, like
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Aspen does. It's not right up there on you. Jackson Hole...
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is so breathtaking and like, it really showcases, Jackson as
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it's in its own right and they bring in a
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few select chefs wine purveyors and things of that magnitude
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juxtaposed like Big Sky brought in a lot from outside
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of the community while still keeping their ethos of Big
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Sky intact Big Sky, the town, we didn't really hang
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out as much as we probably should have. But it's
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really hip. But it's not like you're looking up at
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like 16 or 14 or 10,000 vertical feet right in
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front of you. Big Sky is very... Montana is just vast.
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only the valley, but across the mountain as well. So
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you may not see somebody except for at the Grand Tasting,
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whether it's a chef or... you know, another guest that
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was there for the week. But at the same time,
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with everybody kind of gravitating towards the grand tasting and
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that kind of being the centerfold of the whole weekend,
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it made it kind of feel like we were all
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there together in the same right. Aspen, it feels like
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the magazine, shout out to Food and Wine Magazine, because
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they fucking knocked the bottom out of that. It feels
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like they bring in a star studded team from all
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over the country. And it almost feels, that one feels
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like a reunion because we know so many of those
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people and we've had the luxury and blessings to be
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able to kind of go and showcase that. But everyone's
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like densely populated in this one area all weekend. You know, like,
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so like you bump into the same people, we go
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to happy hour at the same spot, or you run
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into Phil Rosenthal at breakfast the next morning. Like that
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kind of vibe, it's much different than that. But at
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the same time, like if you're a foodie or a gourmand,
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you would eat to your heart's content and you'd probably
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nerd out, especially if you kind of have your thumb
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on the pulse of the culinary scene across the country,
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not just necessarily on television or something of that magnitude.
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It's more of the food and what everyone brought like
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representations to, of their community, of what their menu looks like,
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ingredients they actively source. And I thought the Montana chefs,
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whether it was Ming and the whole coalition in Big Sky,
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are from those from across the state. There were farmers
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that were being represented that were on stage. Shout out
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to Chef Eduardo as well. They all really made a
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point to highlight what was true and what makes Montana
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food great also. And they very much held their own
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amongst all of those star-studded chefs that were aforementioned. So
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like Chris, it was righteous as fuck. And I have
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no doubt that if they do a year or two,
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that it's something that I think everybody that this would
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be a trip that you would want to do if
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you fancy yourself a culinary getaway without having to do Oh,
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do I have tickets to this? Do I have FOMO
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because I'm not at that? Everybody's at the same event
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for the same reason. And it's fucking nuts. It's nuts, Chris.
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Nice.
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After that, I got him Sunday. And we turned around.
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We did three nights of Savor the Season with Eat
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Denver to raise money. It went really, really well. We
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sold out all three nights. we raised probably 10 times
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more money than we did last year. Obviously last year
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was the inaugural year. It went really like Kristen looked
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at me at one point and she was like, something's wrong.
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Like things are going too smoothly for this to be
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the case. And I mean, that's a great problem to have.
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showed out like, If I was to try to name
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all 28 restaurants, I would definitely miss somebody. So I
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would just say thank you to all of them. From
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Tuesday night, they set a tone and a vibe for
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a party. Our sponsors and those that donated food and
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wine and beer and cider and non-alcoholics to the food
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that was put on the plates. But the volunteers... they
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came with it. Like it was vivacious, you know, personalities
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and attitudes, like everybody, like nobody felt like it was
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a chore to be there from back house to front
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of house. And we worked like a dog. Like, I
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know you're a runner at this point in your life.
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couple of days. I logged like 75,000 steps in the
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first two days of the event. Like, It was well
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over 30 Tuesday and Wednesday. And then Thursday we kind
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of were like in the home stretch. All of every
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piece was in place. So there wasn't a lot for
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us to do except get ready for service. But man, yeah,
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my heart is full. My cup is full and my
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battery is so low. So low. I'm tired. We killed
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it though. We killed it.
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we had like a day where there was more seafood focus,
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a day of land. Like we had a day where
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it was beef, lamb and bison, a day where there
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was caviar and hamachi and three or two or three
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fish dishes and And then Thursday was kind of like
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a little bit of everything. But a lot of chefs
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who had worked with the Sound Future, which is a
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locally operated nonprofit that represents regenerative farming across the country
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and the globe. Those chefs all volunteered to do the
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Thursday night. And that was kind of a hodgepodge mix match.
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But realistically, like three past apps, family style, five courses,
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It's a top 30. It was ranked a top 100
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coffee shop in the world and one of only 30
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in America that received one of those recognitions based off
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of where they source, how they roast, etc. And they
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paired coffee, different beans, roasting every night with the dessert course.
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then we had gift bags that everybody got to go
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home with, like a little sweet treat or a nosh
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for the ride home or for the next morning from
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acclaimed chefs in the community also. So we upped the
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ante a little bit this year. But at the same time,
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the community showed out. They shared their love, opened their pocketbooks.
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as physically possible.
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Nice, that's a good strategy. But yeah, I think that's
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one good thing. Obviously, I wasn't able to go this year.
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I will go next year. But, I mean, the thing is,
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it's worth every penny. You don't leave there hungry.
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You don't leave hungry, and hopefully you feel like, oh,
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I was supporting a righteous cause, whether or not you
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donated over the top or just on the fax. Um,
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so hopefully everyone left with the same kind of cup
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being full as we did, but, um, it really was
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a smashing success. Speaking of not being there this year,
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Um, to be honest with you, man, not a whole lot. Uh, no,
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I'm just kidding. Um, just dad life, you know, entering the, um,
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Entering the RSV, cold, virus, flu season, things are just
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popping off. I don't think there's been a period in
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the last two weeks where I've ever felt 100%. I'm
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not sick, but I'm not well.
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Is it like the change of the seasons or is
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it like the kids coming home with like from child,
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like are from daycare bringing something new and funky that
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your body hasn't seen since you were like 20, you know,
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25 years ago.
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Oh dude.
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I think my body right now is just having an
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internal battle being like.
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What the fuck's happening? Why is this coming back? Like,
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what are we doing here? Where are we? Are you
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a child?
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Like literally I just, I'm not like, super sick i
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did end up with sinus infection hooray um but i'm
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not like i've just never i'm probably at like 70 i.
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Mean that's how you're gonna be for the next 18 years.
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No i mean like i'll like i won't be sick
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all the fucking time i just feel like i'm not
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sick but i'm not i'm not well either.
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Yeah I mean, at least you're about to have a
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little time to decompress. You're headed out of town. You've
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got a little vacation on the docket. You're going to
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your second home, a little beach house vibes over in
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San Diego to celebrate the anniversary.
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Yeah, I honestly can't wait to get a taco or
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all the tacos, all the seafood. it's just so goddamn
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good out there but yeah we're gonna go check out
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a restaurant Friday night in Encinitas so I'm I'm pretty
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pumped it's called Valentina I think but it's kind of
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like a tapas.
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Type seafood restaurant.
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Okay. Look, I'm back. I'll hold the fort down while
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you're gone. Yeah. I'm going to take a long... I
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got to go to New York for work in a
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couple days or in a week or two. But besides that,
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I can't wait to just unplug and recharge.
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Hey, but my past two weeks have been better than
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the Broncos.
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True. And Mississippi State.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, so you'll be eating well there. I'm going
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to sneak down to Colorado Springs for a little spa
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and also go catch up with some culinary professionals that
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were recently listed on the Michelin Guide and go see
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what Brother Luck and Chef Ashley Brown are up to.
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And then also I saw BoomBots just dropped a brand
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new menu for autumn that I think, oh yeah, it
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looks like Tickle My Pickle. I'm so fancy to I'm
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going to try and catch that this weekend as well.
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But realistically, this is a perfect time for us to unwind,
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get geared up and ramped up for the holiday season
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and the big push that we have. And next week,
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we have guests coming back on the pod. We have
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some from Big Sky that will drop as well. But
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with us having to double dip recaps, I was like,
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we'll just parse those out.
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Yeah, and I'm back. I mean, I get back Monday, so.
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Hell yeah.
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All this groovy there.
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And I think now the temps are starting to lower
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after this week, after this, because California had a heat wave.
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Um, this week.
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And I think that's what we're getting. But all these, uh,
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fall wine shipments are about to ship.
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So.
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Maybe my Margot will be in that category.
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We're about to be up in our elbows in fucking wine. Dude,
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it's disgusting.
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Like, uh, Because all the bills come in at once.
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And when you have like three or four clubs going on,
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like you're like, oh, fuck, that's a lot of money.
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But then you realize you're going to be sitting on
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this stuff. Well, yeah, we'll see how long it lasts.
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I was going to say.
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But I mean, like come next week, we're going to
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have a full fucking cellar.
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I mean, that's a great problem to have. And I'm
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going to have to, yeah, my fridge is full because
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we had some leftover Freeland whites. from uh the wedding
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and a box or two of reds that we will
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be gifting and then now that we're going to add
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in some uh wines that cost more than my car
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um i'm gonna even get i'm gonna have to get
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like a safe like rednecks keep guns and like a
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locked you know under lock and key i'm gonna do
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that with the margo.
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I would i would fuck yeah that's not.
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Like I could pay off any loan I may have.
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You've got loans.
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Yeah. I got debts. I don't have loans. I have debts.
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Yeah, two very different things.
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Yeah. Some are people that are like, hey, pay. But
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at the same time, no, we're going to keep this wine.
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We'll use it for celebratory purposes. 40th birthday coming around
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the bend. I'm getting too old to be doing a
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fucking podcast. But here we are in year 10. And then,
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you know, we'll use them for celebratory purposes like that.
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We should crack one if they were here in time
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for your anniversary. We maybe do a family supper when
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you get back.
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I'm down.
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Always. Hell yeah. Well, yeah, I just want to get
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a recap episode starting next week. We got a guest
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joining local nationwide. We'll talk about the state of the industry.
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We're also going to dive into the balance. I sat
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down with Phil Weiser today at lunch. with a lot
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of other restaurant professionals to talk about the state of
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the industry and how we may be able to keep
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restaurants open and how to make it a friendlier operation
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and industry across Colorado. So we'll talk a little bit
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more about that. Don't forget to register to vote if
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you're not already. November 3rd is creeping up just because
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one side of the governor race is loaded with a psychopath.
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does not necessarily mean that you can just sit idly by.
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We have house races, Senate races. We have local battles,
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whether you're in Arvada, Denver, Edgewater, fucking Boulder, everybody. There's
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a lot of things that are pressing. And if you
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want a different, you want to see a difference, don't
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say it's not going to change anything. It starts at
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a local level. So we'll dive into that in the
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coming weeks. Maybe we'll get someone on to talk a
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little bit about policy and and how to navigate your ballot.
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But at the same time, we're getting geared up. Now
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that food season is done, we've got three more months
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of this year, and let's make sure that we make
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it count and we shop and spend our money locally
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and with the proper ethos.
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Hell yeah.
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Hell yeah. Well, safe travels, CB. I'll see you on
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the other side. I hope you feel better. I also
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feel like I'm just like, my body's like, stop. Please stop.
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So I'm going to try and take a break myself.
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But until next week, y'all stay high, stay hungry.
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Recharge your batteries.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
